Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is invol...ved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a ...strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differences... rather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external worl...d by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the op...inion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miracul...ous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »